Luigi Mangione is now charged with the cold-blooded killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO … and social media is being flooded with memes hailing the suspect as a hero.
Here’s the deal … 26-year-old Mangione was apprehended Monday and hours later the Manhattan D.A. charged him with murder for the brazen December 4 fatal shooting of Brian Thompson. He’s also facing charges of criminal possession of a weapon, possession of a forged instrument, and 2 counts of possession of a loaded firearm.
Mere minutes after the suspect was identified and internet sleuths found his socials … admirers began posting Super Mario Bros. and “Sopranos” memes celebrating Mangione.
Even before Mangione had been identified … morbid devotees held a look-alike contestin NYC, while others were buying the jacket they thought was the same as the one worn by the suspect.
At one point on Macy’s website over the weekend … more than 6,000 people were viewing the jacket at the same time — and nearly 700 had been sold in the past 48 hours, according to an item-popularity tool on the site.
Monday morning … Mangione was busted in Altoona, Pennsylvania as he sat inside a McDonald’s restaurant. A customer recognized Mangione from widely circulated wanted posters following Thompson’s murder, and told an employee … who then contacted local police, who responded and cuffed the suspect.
CNN
Authorities recovered the alleged pistol Mangione used in the murder and a 3-page manifesto he’d written railing against corporate America and the healthcare industry, according to police.
